Submarine wireless-telegraph device



G. KLEM.

SUBMARINE WIRELESS TELEGRAPH DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-25, 1920. v 1,391,836. PatentedSept. 27,1921.

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INVENTOR I @y Arron/45y G. KLEM.

SUBMARINE WIRELESS TELEGRAPH DEVICE; APPLICATION FILED 0cT.25. 1920.

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1,391,836. Patentedsept. 27,1921.

INVENTOR G: X/em ATTORNEY PATENT OFFICE.

GABRIEL KLEM, OF GABDENTON, MANITOBA, CANADA.

SUIBMARINE WIRELESS-TELEGRAPH DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 27, 1921.

Application filed October 25, 1.920.- Serial No. 419,219.

To all whom it ma concern:

Be it known that l GABRIEL KLEM, a subject of the King of Great Britain residing at Gardenton, in the Province of Manitoba and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Submarine Wireless-Telegraph,Devices, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of this invention is to provide meaiis whereby a submarine may signal by wireless from the bottom of the sea or at any distance under water. This is especially useful in the case of a submarine which is stranded at the bottom of the sea, and which will be enabled,.by means of m device to signal for help and give its position. The above and other objects will become apparent .in the description below, in which characters of reference refer to like-named parts in the drawings.

Referring briefly to the-drawings, Figure 1 is, aside elevational'view of a submarine equipped with my device.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary view,

partly in section, showing the constructionof one of the floats and the arrangement of parts of my device within and upon the submarine. 1

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the various parts of the cable winding mechanism.

Referring now in detail to the drawlngs,

the numeral 1 represents a submarine boat having a cup-like tower near either end of the deck thereof; A pulley 3 is mounted in the side of said tower. Nearsaid tower stands an upright support 4 upon which is mounted a relatively large winding drum 5 having its shaft extended and provided with a bevel gear 6 lyin 'in mesh with a llOI'lZOIltal bevel gear 7. The latter is rigid with a shaft 8 extending through the deck of the boat into the interior, at'the latter end of p which another bevel gear 9 is rigid therewith. The gear 9 lies' in mesh with a bevel gear 10 driven by a motor 11. Upon the motor shaft is also a second bevel gear 12 .in mesh with a horizontal bevel gear 13.

rigid with a shaft 14 extending upward through the deck and having a bevel gear 15 rigid with its upper end. The gear 15 lies in mesh with a vertical bevel gear 16 upon the shaft of a relatively small winding drum 17.

A cable 18 is adapted to be wound upon the drum 5, and a cable 19 upon the drum of, the valve 22 being essentially for inlet purposes and provided with a strongcompression spring by which it is held in a normall closed position, while the valve 21, n t e lower portion of the float 20, is spec1ally adapted as an outlet. A lever 23 1s adapted to engage the end of the valve stem 26 of the valve 21, said lever being p1voted at 24 and a spring 25 normally urgmg said lever to release said stem. The branch cable 19 is attached to the lever 23 to operate the same as will be presently described. A lever 27 is pivoted at 30 and the stem 29 of .the valve 22 is pivotally attached to said lever at 28, the end of said lever being attached. to the branch cable 19 A staff 32 of light-weight material extends from the top of the float 20. and between said stafls on opposite ends of the boat is stretched in the usualmanner awireless antenna 33. A wire 35 leads from said antenna down into the wireless room 34 of the boat, a pulley 36 being mounted upon the deck so that said wire may pass thereabout in being wound or unwound.

A vertical tube 38 is mounted upon the deck adjacent the tower 2, and when the float 20 is lowered against the deck, the valve 21 lies in said tube, which is suitably provided with packin or like means for forming a watertightoint with the entered valve 21 the actuating lever 23' of which is drawn out" of the way by the spring 25, as shown in Fig. 4. A p1pe 39 lies in said tube, and the upper end thereof is equipped with a valve 43 adapted to contact with the valve 21. The pipe 39 extends, at 40, into a pump ll'driven by a motor 42.

The operation and use of the device will now be described. Assuming that the floats are idle on the deck of the submarine and filled with water and it is desired to raise them the motor 42 is driven to pump the The floats will in the usual manner. When it is desired to lower the floats, the motor 11 is driven in the reverse direction the cable 19 being pulled taut so as to open both valves, allowing water to enter the float, which therefore descends.

I claim:

1. A device of the class described comprising floats adapted to be raised or lowered, means on a submarine boat for raising or lowering said floats, means for filling or emptying said floats, one of said floats being situated at each end of said boat, staffs extending from the upper surface of said floats, and an antenna stretched between said staffs.

2. A device of the class described comprising floats adapted to be raised or lowered, said floats comprising hollow globular bodies, valves in said floats, cables attached.

to said valves and said floats, means for winding up said cables, means for removing water from said floats, and a wireless antenna supported between said floats.

3. A device of the class described comprising floats adapted to be raised or lowered, said floats comprising hollow globular bodies, valves in said floats, levers pivotally attached to said floats for operating said valves, cables attached to said valves and said floats. means for winding up said cables, means for removing water from said floats, and a wireless antenna supported between said floats.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

GABRIEL KLEM. 

